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The subject is a scene from the novel Noli Me Tangere by National Hero Jose Rizal, where Elias is subduing a crocodile by attempting to tie the beast鈥檚 jaws shut. The emerging tension of the narrative commences early on with a fishing expedition that fails to haul in any catch. It turns out that a crocodile has been trapped inside the net. In this chapter titled 鈥淭he Crocodile Fight,鈥� Rizal displays a narrative skill that, while not likely conscious of it, evinces a sensitive filmic eye, attuned
to the vivid power of the camera lens, as the reader is quickly engrossed in what in contemporary terms is known as an 鈥渁ction scene.鈥�

How to seize a fleeting action and freeze it, as it were, into a permanent and obdurate solid material was the daunting challenge which faced the sculptor Graciano T. Nepomuceno.